So I'm reading that book by Dana Buchman, and there are parts I respond to, though my overall impression is that as a writer, she makes a great clothes designer, and there are things that are very specific to her story (the type A personality, the lifestyle). Also, I think I resisted the amount of space she spent on herself and her responses, versus any coherent sense of Charlotte's progress--the narrative had a very choppy quality to it, probably b/c she was trying to group things thematically to bring some organization to the whole experience. And she's been really, really therapized and it has some of that therapy-speak quality to it, though it's painfully sincere.

The business about learning not to fix her daughter resonated with me, though, as did the notion that she needed to embrace the disability as part of her daughter, which also felt familiar. And the cluelessness re how to pick a program: noticing the size of the rooms and the windows is about on the same level of decision-making I was operating at when we picked Prima's self-contained preschool. I still can't believe how uninformed I was.